As a result, there are built up detached and independent systems of school knowledge that inertly overlay the [Pg 200] ordinary systems of experience instead of reacting to enlarge and refine them.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

The death of Theophilus expanded and realized the hopes of his nephew.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The Clatsop Chief Commowool and the two Cath-lah-mahs left us this evening and returned to their village.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

that spade and mattock and coarse victuals and hard living do altogether purge away carnal appetites from the tillers of the earth and render them exceeding dull of wit and judgment.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Two rifles were banging from two nails, on the wall; and in the corners of the rooms were spades, fishing poles, dried palm leaves, every imaginable thing set down at random when people came home in the evening and ready to hand when they went out at any time, or went to work.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

So far from being edified by this very proper reply, the elder Mr. Weller at once relapsed into a broad grin; and this inexorable conduct causing the lady and Mr. Stiggins to close their eyes, and rock themselves to and fro on their chairs, in a troubled manner, he furthermore indulged in several acts of pantomime, indicative of a desire to pummel and wring the nose of the aforesaid Stiggins, the performance of which, appeared to afford him great mental relief.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

And God made two great Lights, great for thir use To Man, the greater to have rule by Day, The less by Night alterne: and made the Starrs, And set them in the Firmament of Heav'n To illuminate the Earth, and rule the Day 350 In thir vicissitude, and rule the Night, And Light from Darkness to divide.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Now, therefore, O Adam, take Eve, and return to your cave, and remain in it until the morning after the fortieth day.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

The emission of sounds—Vocal sounds—Sounds otherwise produced—Erection of the dermal appendages, hairs, feathers, &c., under the emotions of anger and terror—The drawing back of the ears as a preparation for fighting, and as an expression of anger—Erection of the ears and raising the head, a sign of attention 88-114 CHAP.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

McKay arrived from Battle River in the evening, and reported that he had met there a number of Indians, principally Saulteaux, who had been in camp at that place for some time.
— from The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto by Alexander Morris

Tecumseh, in the mean time, with about two thousand warriors, took a position in the great swamp, between that point and fort Meigs, ready to encounter any reinforcement that might have been started to the relief of general Clay, to fall upon the camp at Seneca, or upon Upper Sandusky, according to circumstances.
— from Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians by Benjamin Drake

The following excellent and interesting account of the exercises and customs of Commencement at Yale College, in former times, is taken from the entertaining address referred to above:—"Commencements were not to be public, according to the wishes of the first Trustees, through fear of the attendant expense; but another practice soon prevailed, and continued with three or four exceptions until the breaking out of the war in 1775.
— from A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

During the night the directors had taken care to pay themselves for the banknotes in their own possession with silver or gold, and, as they expected a run, they ordered all persons to be paid in copper coin, as long as any money of this metal remained.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

When several ladies arrive together, the usher offers his arm to the eldest, and requests the others to follow as he conducts her to her seat.
— from The Etiquette of To-day by Edith B. (Edith Bertha) Ordway

But the idea that the negroes generally would leave their comfortable homes, and various privileges on the estates, and retire to the wild woods, he ridiculed as preposterous in the extreme.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

The Episcopalians are ready to say the same, and we ask whether in fairness we can refuse to one what we grant to the other?
— from Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada by J. Harold (John Harold) Putman

They, however, fortunately made their escape and returned to Cortez.
— from Hernando Cortez Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

'We have only further to express a regret that the performance of a necessary but painful duty, should have subjected any one of you to unpleasant and unmerited restraint.'
— from Historical Record of the Fifteenth, or, the Yorkshire East Riding, Regiment of Foot Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1848 by Richard Cannon